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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

“Not of this world”

Adela Rogers St. Johns has been identified as a novelist and movie historian as early as 1930, Adela described Mabel Normand as “Not of this world” perhaps true in the poetic sense if not in a factual one.

Adela’s sincere affection is clear whenever she wrote of her friend, Mabel Normand.According
to an article she wrote in Photoplay in August 1921, Adela first saw
Mabel at Al Levy’s restaurant. Adela writes, her dining partner put down
his fork, turned to her and told her in a hushed voice that
the ‘prettiest girl I ever saw in my life’ had just walked into the
restaurant’, Adela turned and saw Mabel, a “round, youthful, exquisite
thing. With enormous deep velvet brown eyes between ridiculous,
exaggerate golden lashes, a skin like peach-bloom and a saucy, curling,
red mouth.All in white, with her glinting red-brown curls tucked under a big white hat.http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/adelaandmabel.htm

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Thanks for visiting my blog. I hope you will find it interesting. "This and That and More of the Same" strives to show images that are striking along with intriguing human interest stories. The "Memories" blog displays images of family while "Why Ask For the Moon When We Have the Stars" is devoted to friends.